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...immoral?" but "Is it impolitie?" ask French police of themselves when called upon to act as censors. "It is impolitie," decided the Parisian police last week, when a War film appeared with Germans called "Boches" in several subtitles. "Henceforth," announced the Prefect of Police, "the term 'Boche' will not be tolerated in any stage or screen production shown in Paris, since the expression is one militating against international concord...
Thus far no U. S. film censor is known to have struck out "Heinie," "Squarehead," "Fritzie...
...certain of ridding himself of his expensive daughter, he refused to unlock the door till the night had passed and the ship had sailed far into the sea. The mistake turned out to be one of those fortunate coincidences in which the ideal mating is accomplished by farce. The film is not so fortunate. Seasickness is the big laugh...
Irish Destiny is a film made in Ireland by Dr. I. J. Eppel. It records with bungling artistry but unmistakable sincerity the struggle between the Irish Republican Army and the British Black-and-Tans during the bitter squabbles of 1916-22. Most interesting are pictures of the escape of 200 prisoners from Curragh Prison Camp, the burning of the Dublin Customs House, street fighting in the city. In spite of paucity of entertainment, the film holds the attention of those whose feelings are swayed by political, racial considerations...
...Chilean ambassador to the United States cannot seem to fall in with the traditions of the North American film at all. He rather objects, for instance, to the idea that all children from south of the Rio Grande grow up to be craven desperadoes to be slaughtered or knocked out by iron-fisted vigilantes with curly hair, alleged Anglo-Saxon ancestry, and IT. He has a sort of a case, perhaps. But these Latins never seem to have a proper sense of good, clean fun and don't understand what an important and necessary part they play in film land...